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WiC 372 (Jun 30, 2017)

Anniversary angst?

Society, Talking Point How Hong Kong has changed since its 1997 handover and what…

When Margaret Thatcher agreed to hand Hong Kong back to China on July 1, 1997, the Chinese agreed to the principle of “one country, two systems” in ...

Telecoms China looks set to spend $249 billion on its new 5G…

Many people are familiar with the concept of peak oil. Far fewer have heard about peak data, or rather the Shannon-Hartley theorem, which posits the ...

Rock star departs

Chinese Character Vanke founder’s retirement casts a long shadow

Even though Martin Sorrell receives what many deem a meagre annual salary of £1.15 million for running the advertising giant WPP, he famously gets a ...

Winning over Ohio

Auto Industry Fuyao’s boss is angry about criticism in the US

A few years ago, Fuyao Glass chairman Cao Dewang told a conference that, “if you want to invest in the US, you must love it first”. But over the ...

Banking & Finance China’s tech giants team up with the Big Four banks

This year Yu’ebao, the money management service run by Alibaba-affiliate Ant Financial, became the world’s largest money market fund, handling ...

Who’s Hu Gome's saviour

When billionaire retail tycoon Huang Guangyu was sentenced to 14 years in jail on charges of illegal business dealings, the future of his company Gome ...

Zhuhai’s coming out

Economy The China-Israel Investment Summit highlights Zhuhai’s strategic location

Four years ago Gree Electric’s chairwoman Dong Mingzhu made a Rmb1 billion wager with Lei Jun, challenging the Xiaomi CEO that his tech firm’s ...

Bay’s Chinese cash machine

Entertainment Critics universally pan new Transformer’s movie, but it does well in China

The first of Michael Bay’s big-budget Transformers films came out a decade ago. The series was never a favourite for the critics, but ...

The tables turn

Sport Another crisis for one of China’s favourite sports

After winning two gold medals in the men’s table tennis at the Rio Olympics last year, the head coach of the Chinese team celebrated by cooking ...

Society Canadian film turns spotlight on disturbing traffic accidents

If the Chinese-Canadian film Old Stone is ever released in China it will be interesting to see how audiences react. It follows the story of ...

Planet China Think of US tech giant Microsoft and poetry does not immediately…

Think of US tech giant Microsoft and poetry does not immediately spring to mind. But as China Daily pointed out this week, an artificial intelligence ...

The next chapter

Sino-File “Our cooperation with China Mobile is not only on devices, but…

Brian Aitken, general manager of Amazon Reading, discusses the e-commerce giant’s latest push in China: the launch of a new Kindle device. The Kindle ...

Cartoons Locked out

China’s bike-sharing boom has had its first casualty, with Chongqing-based firm Wukong announcing it has gone bust just six months after launch. ...

Drug prescription

And Finally Fury as TV doctor is exposed as not a doctor

Liu Hongbin has the type of face that people are inclined to trust. Her short grey hair is smart yet pragmatic, her unlined face radiates good health, ...